Alex Anson and Laura Jewell join WSET

Published: 23 July, 2008

The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) has added Laura Jewell MW of HwCg and Alex Anson of Thresher Group to its Awards Supervisory Board (ASB).

The ASB, which functions independently of the WSET and its trustees, monitors and advises on the awarding activities of WSET Awards, thus ensuring the continued integrity of the qualifications offered by the WSET.

Jewell has been agency director for HwCg since late 2005. Prior to that she was a senior buyer at Sainsbury's.

Anson has been trading director for the wine category with Thresher Group since May 2004. Before that he worked in Tesco's commercial department for beers, wines